Flexible Nuclear Energy for Clean Energy Systems.
The problem is that such simple rules, although alluring, can be unhelpful or plain wrong in other circumstances..When lecturing my students, I discuss the dis-economy of scale.
How large processes need large peak demands of inputs, how many design factors are not linear so doubling the size of a process can mean 4x or 8x the energy, the time, or the effort.For some processes, a colony of ants would be much more efficient than a brontosaurus..The point is that scale is a complex but critical issue if you are concerned with multiple factors – profitability, economic agility, sustainability, system reliability.
We cannot just keep doing what we have always done or following over-simplistic thinking.The technological advances of the last 50 years have allowed us to be able to model scenarios from millisecond by millisecond to decade by decade.
This allows us to control processes at both ends of the scale – from an oil refinery to a micro robot.
This is a time when we need to learn from nature and think hard about scale..The first edition of this book was written by.
Jaimie Johnston MBE.in 2017 to define and inform the thinking around the development of a platforms design (P-DfMA) approach to construction.
It focuses on the opportunity, and benefits, of applying the platform design approach to the scale and scope of the UK Government's construction portfolio..It was a precursor to the reviews and policies that followed, including;.